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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Tristram"”.
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Romance Motifs and Ethics in Malory's 'Book of Sir Tristram'
Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Book of Sir Tristram’, a condensation of the Old French Tristan en prose, has not received the attention it deserves. Previous studies notice the two texts’ differences in characterisation, style, moral emphasis, structural arrangements, and so on, but no study has sufficiently …
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Writing as Conversation: The Importance of Communication in Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristram Shandy</em>.
<p>Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is a novel consumed with conversation. The conversations that the characters have with each other and the ongoing conversation between Tristram and the reader all address the importance of communication. This study examines the theme of communication as Sterne …
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Classical stoicism and romantic passion : the golden mean in Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult".
In "Tristram and Iseult," Matthew Arnold attempts to find the balance between calmness and passion in an effort to discover a way of life suitable to the problems of modernity. In the poem, Tristram and la belle Iseult demonstrate Romantic passion, and Iseult le Blanche Mains practices Classical …
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The Shandean world : an examination of the effects of narrative technique on the fictional world of Tristram Shandy
… of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.Analysis of the fictional world of Tristram Shandy, reveals a binary world which is created by the novel's narrative technique. Distinct outlines of the two fictional worlds of Tristram (TW) and the Shandy Brothers (SBW) …
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"Redefining Gender Through the Arena of the Male Body: The Reception of Thomas's Tristan in the Old French ""Le Chevalier De La Charette"" and the Old Icelandic ""Saga Af Tristram Ok Isodd"
… de la Charette and the Old Icelandic Saga af Tristram ok Isodd. Both of these texts are responses to the Old French Tristan romance and both deny the sexual ambiguity of the Tristan figure by reconfiguring the equation of male body and masculinity that is typical of courtly romance. Chretien …
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The Role of Christian Faith in Public Moral Discourse: A Comparison of Selected Works from H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick
… of the role of faith in the ethics H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Stanley Hauerwas, and Richard A. McCormick. This is done so as to illustrate the impact that their different understandings of the role of Christian faith in ethics have on the way that they understand Christian ethics …
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… in fiction. From Laurence Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u> to B.S. Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, we see an exploration in content and delivery of story. In Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u>, he uses tactics such as drawings and deletion of pages. In Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… madcap extravagance follows Sterne, whose <em>Tristram Shandy</em> is the first book in the language in tales of tubs, and in most other respects as well.</p> <p>Sterne sheds a labyrinth of words in fashioning <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, all deriving from and producing the tale of a tub. Sterne’s …
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Adding to the fragment : happiness & conversation in three eighteenth-century comedic novels
… novels. Recent scholarship on Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy has sought to enlarge the role religious ideas and beliefs play in our understanding of these novels. This paper counters these readings by suggesting that comedic novels need to be read as comedies and that the field of Happiness …
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BODIES IN THE KNOW: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF EMBODIMENT IN THOMAS MALORY'S TRYSTRAM
The world of Thomas Malory's Book of Sir Tristram De Lyones is contained in two realities. The natural is ephemeral, subjective, limited, and mediated while the supernatural is eternal, absolute, universal, and direct. Yet, because humans exist in the physical and natural, knowledge starts with …
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‘One of the nobelyst knyghtes of the worlde, and most perfitist man’: the role of Bors in Malory’s Morte Darthur.
… Morte until the later part of ‘The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyonesse’ where his role as support to Lancelot becomes prominent and where his spirituality and faith are first tested. During the quest for the Holy Grail, Bors is one of just three knights who succeed in the quest and travel to the …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
This thesis provides the first detailed evaluation of the Australian government's decision in March 2020 to permit the early release of up to $20,000 in lump sum withdrawals from people's superannuation (private pension) accounts. It makes several contributions to economic literature. First, we …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
This thesis provides the first detailed evaluation of the Australian government's decision in March 2020 to permit the early release of up to $20,000 in lump sum withdrawals from people's superannuation (private pension) accounts. It makes several contributions to economic literature. First, we …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
… narratological structure of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. I investigate the role of memory reconstruction in shaping Tristram’s autobiography, highlighting, in the process, the influence of Enlightenment theories of the brain on the digressive condition of Sterne’s narrative. Chapter Five …
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Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy.
… Sterne's manipulations of the material page in Tristram Shandy as an attempt to expose the limitations of print communication and to suggest new ways of reading that could overcome those limitations. Chapter Three examines the writing of Smith, Kames, Mackenzie, Reeve and Godwin in order to …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… The novels are The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767) by Laurence Sterne; The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) by Tobias Smollett and The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) also by Smollett. The debates are respectively man-midwifery and conception …
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Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
This project uses corpus linguistics and geostatistics to test the sociolinguistic typological theory put forward by Peter Trudgill on the history of Norwegian. The theory includes several effects of societal factors on language change. Most discussed is the proposal that ‘intensive’ language …
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